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Sarkari Jobs Powered by Mockbank Top 3 Current Affairs of January 2017 1. Padma Awards 2. Jallikattu 3. Operation Clean Money 1. PADMA AWARDS Padma awards – 2017. Padma awards: • The Government of India instituted two civilian awards-Bharat Ratna & Padma Vibhushan in 1954. • The Padma Vibhushan had three classes namely Pahela Varg, Dusra Varg and Tisra Varg. These were subsequently renamed as Padma Sarkari Jobs Powered by Mockbank Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri vide Presidential Notification issued on January 8, 1955. • The Padma Awards are conferred on the recommendations made by the Padma Awards Committee, which is constituted by the Prime Minister every year. • The Padma Awards Committee is headed by the Cabinet Secretary and includes Home Secretary, Secretary to the President and four to six eminent persons as members. • The recommendations of the committee are submitted to the Prime Minister and the President of India for approval. • Since 1954, Padma awards are announce every year on the occasion of Republic day except for the interruptions in 1977-80 and 1993-97. • These awards are conferred by the President of India at ceremonial functions which are held at Rashtrapati Bhawan usually around March/ April every year. • The Awards are given in various disciplines/ fields of activities, viz.- art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil service, etc. o ‘Padma Vibhushan’ is awarded for exceptional and distinguished service; o ‘Padma Bhushan’ for distinguished service of high order and o ‘Padma Shri’ for distinguished service in any field. Padma awards-2017 Sarkari Jobs Powered by Mockbank • The President of India has approved conferment of Padma Awards to 89 persons as per the list. • The list comprises of 7 Padma Vibhushan, 7 Padma Bhushan and 75 Padma Shri Awardees. • 19 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 5 persons from the category of foreigners, NRIs, PIOs and 6 Posthumous awardees. LIST OF PADMA AWARDEES OF 2017 Padma Vibhushan Sl. Name Field State No 1. Shri K J Yesudas Art-Music Kerala 2. Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev Others-Spiritualism Tamil Nadu 3. Shri Sharad Pawar Public Affairs Maharashtra 4. Shri Murli Manohar Joshi Public Affairs Uttar Pradesh Sarkari Jobs Powered by Mockbank 5. Prof. Udipi Ramachandra Rao Science & Engineering Karnataka Late Shri Sunder Lal Madhya 6. Public Affairs Patwa (Posthumous) Pradesh Late Shri PA Sangma 7. Public Affairs Meghalaya (Posthumous) Padma Bhushan Sl. Name Field State No. 8. Shri Vishwa Mohan Bhatt Art-Music Rajasthan Uttar 9. Prof. (Dr.) Devi Prasad Dwivedi Literature & Education Pradesh 10. Shri Tehemton Udwadia Medicine Maharashtra 11. Shri Ratna Sundar Maharaj Others-Spiritualism Gujarat Swami Niranjana Nanda 12. Others-Yoga Bihar Saraswati H.R.H. Princess Maha Chakri 13. Literature & Education Thailand Sirindhorn (Foreigner) Late Shri Cho Literature & Education 14. Tamil Nadu Ramaswamy (Posthumous) –Journalism Padma Shri Sarkari Jobs Powered by Mockbank Sl. Name Field State No 15. Smt. Basanti Bisht Art-Music Uttarakhand Shri Chemanchery 16. Art-Dance Kerala Kunhiraman Nair 17. Smt. Aruna Mohanty Art-Dance Odisha 18. Smt. Bharathi Vishnuvardhan Art-Cinema Karnataka 19. Shri Sadhu Meher Art-Cinema Odisha 20. Shri T K Murthy Art-Music Tamil Nadu Shri Laishram Birendrakumar 21. Art-Music Manipur Singh 22. Shri Krishna Ram Chaudhary Art-Music Uttar Pradesh 23. Smt. Baoa Devi Art-Painting Bihar 24. Shri Tilak Gitai Art-Painting Rajasthan 25. Dr. Prof. Aekka Yadagiri Rao Art-Sculpture Telangana 26. Shri Jitendra Haripal Art-Music Odisha 27. Shri Kailash Kher Art-Music Maharashtra 28. Smt. Parassala B Ponnammal Art-Music Kerala 29. Smt. Sukri Bommagowda Art-Music Karnataka 30. Shri Mukund Nayak Art-Music Jharkhand 31. Shri Purushottam Upadhyay Art-Music Gujarat Sarkari Jobs Powered by Mockbank 32. Smt. Anuradha Paudwal Art-Music Maharashtra 33. Shri Wareppa Naba Nil Art-Theatre Manipur Shri Tripuraneni Hanuman 34. Civil Service Telangana Chowdary 35. Shri T.K. Viswanathan Civil Service Haryana 36. Shri Kanwal Sibal Civil Service Delhi Shri Birkha Bahadur Limboo 37. Literature & Education Sikkim Muringla 38. Smt. Eli Ahmed Literature & Education Assam 39. Dr. Narendra Kohli Literature & Education Delhi 40. Prof. G. Venkatasubbiah Literature & Education Karnataka Shri Akkitham Achyuthan 41. Literature & Education Kerala Namboothiri Jammu & 42. Shri Kashi Nath Pandita Literature & Education Kashmir 43. Shri Chamu Krishna Shastry Literature & Education Delhi 44. Shri Harihar Kripalu Tripathi Literature & Education Uttar Pradesh 45. Shri Michel Danino Literature & Education Tamil Nadu 46. Shri Punam Suri Literature & Education Delhi 47. Shri VG Patel Literature & Education Gujarat Andhra 48. Smt. V Koteswaramma Literature & Education Pradesh Sarkari Jobs Powered by Mockbank Literature & Education- 49. Shri Balbir Dutt Jharkhand Journalism Literature & Education- 50. Smt. Bhawana Somaaya Maharashtra Journalism Literature & Education- 51. Shri Vishnu Pandya Gujarat Journalism 52. Dr. Subroto Das Medicine Gujarat Madhya 53. Dr. (Smt.) Bhakti Yadav Medicine Pradesh 54. Dr. Mohammed Abdul Waheed Medicine Telangana 55. Dr. Madan Madhav Godbole Medicine Uttar Pradesh 56. Dr. Devendra Dayabhai Patel Medicine Gujarat 57. Prof. Harkishan Singh Medicine Chandigarh 58. Dr. Mukut Minz Medicine Chandigarh 59. Shri Arun Kumar Sharma Others-Archaeology Chhattisgarh 60. Shri Sanjeev Kapoor Others-Culinary Maharashtra 61. Smt. Meenakshi Amma Others-Martial Art Kerala 62. Shri Genabhai Dargabhai Patel Others-Agriculture Gujarat 63. Shri Chandrakant Pithawa Science & Engineering Telangana 64. Prof. Ajoy Kumar Ray Science & Engineering West Bengal Andhra 65. Shri Chintakindi Mallesham Science & Engineering Pradesh Sarkari Jobs Powered by Mockbank 66. Shri Jitendra Nath Goswami Science & Engineering Assam 67. Shri Daripalli Ramaiah Social Work Telangana 68. Shri Girish Bhardwaj Social Work Karnataka 69. Shri Karimul Hak Social Work West Bengal 70. Shri Bipin Ganatra Social Work West Bengal Smt. Nivedita Raghunath 71. Social work Tamil Nadu Bhide Shri Appasaheb 72. Social Work Maharashtra Dharmadhikari 73. Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal Social Work Punjab 74. Shri Virat Kohli Sports-Cricket Delhi 75. Shri Shekar Naik Sports-Cricket Karnataka 76. Shri Vikasa Gowda Sports-Discus Throw Karnataka 77. Smt. Deepa Malik Sports-Athletics Haryana 78. Shri Mariyappan Thangavelu Sports-Athletics Tamil Nadu 79. Smt. Dipa Karmakar Sports-Gymnastics Tripura 80. Shri P R Shreejesh Sports-Hockey Kerala 81. Smt. Sakshi Malik Sports-Wrestling Haryana Shri Mohan Reddy 82. Trade & Industry Telangana Venkatrama Bodanapu 83. Shri Imrat Khan (NRI/PIO) Art-Music USA Sarkari Jobs Powered by Mockbank 84. Shri Anant Agarwal (NRI/PIO) Literature & Education USA Literature & Education- 85. Shri H.R. Shah (NRI/PIO) USA Journalism Late (Smt.) Suniti Solomon 86. Medicine Tamil Nadu (Posthumous) Shri Asoke Kumar 87. Others-Archaeology West Bengal Bhattacharyya (Posthumous) 88. Dr. Mapuskar (Posthumous) Social Work Maharashtra Smt. Anuradha Koirala 89. Social Work Nepal (Foreigner) 2. JALLIKATTU Sarkari Jobs Powered by Mockbank Jallikattu – All you need to know about it • Also known as Eruthazhuvuthal or Manju virattu, Jallikattu is a traditional bull-taming sport organised in Tamil Nadu during Pongal. According to some historical accounts, the practice dates back to as far as 2000 years ago. It was mainly active in the Madurai, Tiruchirappalli, Theni, Pudukkottai and Dindigul districts of Tamil Nadu until its ban in 2011. • The name jallikattu is derived from the word ‘salli’ meaning coins and ‘kattu’ meaning bundle or pouch. • Here the bull is released into the open area with crowd of people and multiple human participants attempt to grab the large hump of the bull with both arms and hang on to it while the bull is attempting to escape. Participants hold the hump for as long as possible, attempting to bring the bull to a stop. No ropes or other tools are allowed. Sarkari Jobs Powered by Mockbank The controversy over Jallikattu: • The Ministry of Environment and Forests(MoEF) issued a notification in 2011 that banned the use of bulls as performing animals, thereby banning the sport. But the sport was continued to be conducted under Tamil Nadu Regulation of Jallikattu Act 2009. • In May 2014, the Supreme Court of India struck down the state law and banned the sport. The SC noted that any flouting of the ban should result in penalties for cruelty to animals under The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960. • The Apex court also asked the centre to amend the law on preventing cruelty to animals to bring bulls within its ambit. On 8th Jan 2016, the MoEF permitted the continuation of the tradition under certain conditions effectively ending the ban. • The Animal Welfare Board of India challenged the permission in Supreme court and court on 12th Jan 2016 ordered a stay to sport and issued notices to the central and Tamil Nadu government. • The Tamil Nadu government on 21st Jan 2016 promulgated an ordinance allowing jallikattu, after people organized massive protests aginst the Supreme Court’s ban. • On 23rd Jan 2016 Tamil Nadu Assembly unanimously passed “Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Tamil Nadu Amendment), Bill, 2017” to amend the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960. • The Bill defines jallikattu as an event involving bulls conducted with a view to following tradition and culture from January to May and it includes similar